Important Facts -Born July 12, 1817 –Died May 6, 1817 -Born in Concord, Massachusetts. -was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist -his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. -David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become "Henry David" until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change -Thoreau studied at Harvard University between 1833 and 1837. -Henry David Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835 -Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were greatly influenced by Thoreau’s writing -Thoreau had 3 siblings -Was born in his grandmothers farm house - Thoreau did not like parties -Never got married -Was very fine in Greek
Accomplishments
-Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes.
-Interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true
Pictures
Poems
What's the Railroad to Me?
What's the railroad to me?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
Smoke
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell
ponder on it well,
Which were easier to state,
All my love or all my hate.
Surely, surely, thou wilt trust me
When I say thou dost disgust me.
O, I hate thee with a hate
That would fain annihilate;
Yet sometimes against my will,
My dear friend, I love thee still.
It were treason to our love,
And a sin to God above,
One iota to abate
Of a pure impartial hate.
Important Facts
-Born July 12, 1817 –Died May 6, 1817
-Born in Concord, Massachusetts.
-was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist
-his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
-David Henry was named after a recently deceased paternal uncle, David Thoreau. He did not become "Henry David" until after college, although he never petitioned to make a legal name change
-Thoreau studied at Harvard University between 1833 and 1837.
-Henry David Thoreau contracted tuberculosis in 1835
-Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. were greatly influenced by Thoreau’s writing
-Thoreau had 3 siblings
-Was born in his grandmothers farm house
- Thoreau did not like parties
-Never got married
-Was very fine in Greek
Accomplishments
-Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes.
-Interested in the idea of survival in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natural decay; at the same time imploring one to abandon waste and illusion in order to discover life's true
Pictures
Poems
What's the Railroad to Me?What's the railroad to me?
I never go to see
Where it ends.
It fills a few hollows,
And makes banks for the swallows,
It sets the sand a-blowing,
And the blackberries a-growing.
Smoke
Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
Indeed, indeed, I cannot tell
ponder on it well,
Which were easier to state,
All my love or all my hate.
Surely, surely, thou wilt trust me
When I say thou dost disgust me.
O, I hate thee with a hate
That would fain annihilate;
Yet sometimes against my will,
My dear friend, I love thee still.
It were treason to our love,
And a sin to God above,
One iota to abate
Of a pure impartial hate.
Works Cited
George. "File:Henry David Thoreau 1861.jpg." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 20 Jan. 2011.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/henry_david_thoreau/poems/17930
Emerson, Ralph. "Thoreau--Poems." Virginia Commonwealth University. Web. 24 Jan. 2011. <http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/thoreau/thoreaupoems.html>.
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